How to Reach the Funds Set Up by Levi Strauss’s Heirs
The Columbia Foundation One Lombard Street, Suite 305 San Francisco 94111 (415) 986-5179 World-Wide Web site: http://www.columbia.org Executive director: Susan Reed Clark Richard One Lombard Street, Suite 303 San Francisco 94111 (415) 788-1090 Executive director: Duane Silverstein Evelyn and Walter…
Photograph by MICHAEL TONY Several times a year, some 200 volunteers fan out across metropolitan Washington, D.C., carrying buckets, vials, dip nets, pocket magnifying lenses, and other equipment for testing water quality. Their mission: to record information about a particular site at one of 45…
Nonprofit Investment Policies: Practical Steps for Growing Charitable Funds By Robert P. Fry, Jr. Rarely have the legal and financial environments been better suited to those who invest in behalf of charities, writes the author. He offers this book to help managers of non-profit groups manage their…
By C. Quinn Hanchette
Contributor
Aid Association for Lutherans (Appleton, Wis.): Appointed Walter S. Rugland, a consulting actuary and equity principal at Milliman & Robertson (Hartford, Conn.), to be executive vice-president and chief operating officer, effective July 1. Alliance for Community Media (Washington): Appointed Bunnie…
Federal Charity Drive Raised $197-Million in 1997
The federal government’s charity drive brought in $197.1-million last year, an increase of $3.5-million over 1996. The gain marked the second time in a row that giving to the Combined Federal Campaign has risen. The increase will be welcome news to the thousands of charities that depend on the…
By Marilyn Dickey
Senior Editor, Copy
Alternative Funds Make Slow Progress in Quest to Solicit Corporate Workers
The federal government’s charity drive has long offered a major lift to fund-raising federations that compete with United Way. Since 1980, the federal drive, which last year raised $197.1-million, has allowed many types of federations to seek money from government employees. But non-United Way…
By Marilyn Dickey
Senior Editor, Copy
Homosexual-rights activists say that the I.R.S. acted improperly when it recently asked a Rhode Island organization that helps lesbians to change its mission statement as a prerequisite for obtaining charity status. Kathys’ Group, located in South Kingstown, provides health information to gay women…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
IRS Proposes Rules for Travel Tours
The I.R.S. has proposed new rules to explain when universities, museums, and other tax-exempt groups can sponsor travel tours without paying income tax on revenue from the trips. Non-profit organizations must pay the unrelated-business income tax on income from activities that are not…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
Contributor
Bills Promote Credits, Protect Contributions
A group of 29 Republican Senators and Representatives, calling itself the Renewal Alliance, has proposed a package of bills aimed at helping downtrodden cities and the charities and churches that “bind communities together.” Among the proposals: Encourage state tax credits. States could use federal…
By GRANT WILLIAMS
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